Posts by Midget-Sasquatch

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WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU WERE DEAD WRONG?

by Terry in

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what did you do?how did you handle it?

Midget-Sasquatch

I was driving my mother around for her shopping and she said that there was an odd sound coming from the engine. I pulled over into a lot left the car running and we checked under the hood. Everything looked just fine to me...My mother points to what I eventually learned was the tensioner but I looked at the tension on the belt and brushed it off.

Sure enough about a half hour later I lost all power steering and the tensioner with the belt had actually came off the side of the engine. I think I'm going to get her to check over a car for me from now on before I buy one or take any long trips with it.

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Do You Feel That Stereotyping Nationalities Is Necessarily Wrong?

by minimus in

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politically correct, it isn't----but do you think there's any validity to "stereotyping" people or backgrounds??

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Midget-Sasquatch

Alot of good points. I can't acknowledge them all without insulting someone I leave out.

I agree there likely is some truth behind stereotypes because our pattern seeking trait actually needs to perceive something before it goes about its business of making connections. And like it was mentioned, one can choose to put a positive or negative slant on the 'patterns' they make out.

I think its wrong to automatically stereotype by nationality because you'll always have individuals within a group that go against the grain to varying degrees and that could be unfair. Also it seems nationality has less of a bearing on how people behave than on other factors like social standing and economic means, so we could be very wrong.

Profiling can be turned into a positive though when it focusses mainly on behaviours and not on what country or race you're from. The stereotypical attributes of serial killers to help zero in on suspects for instance.

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Darwins theory of evolution

by gisburnuk in

hi everyone, i have been attending bible study with one of my jeohavah's witnesses for 4 weeks, and only recently i had attended a sunday meeting with brother michael at our local kindom hall.

i have enjoyed both the time with the bible study (michael teaching quality) and the sunday meeting and have had serious thoughts to altering my life in accordance with jehovah.

but i am rather sceptical about evolution, and whenever i try to read genesis in the bible, darwins theory seems to get in the way.

Midget-Sasquatch

hooberus,

Those were some interesting creationist links you posted. From the little I glanced through, I'd say Gibson was the most unbiased of the bunch. He still tried to argue from his creationist view but at least he conceded the reality on the overall picture on non-coding dna and how that does favour the current 'shared ancestry' model for now. (Hey, I'd love to see good evidence that would rock the current evolutionary paradigm to keep things interesting)

Gisburnuk,

Here's to looking at both sides of the issue and as Panda wrote making up your own mind!!!

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Christ returned "invisibly" in 1914. ........ What proof?

by hubert in

the watchtower says christ returned in 1914, but "invisibly".

if so, how do they know he returned?

did christ leave them a note?.

Midget-Sasquatch

Well whatever is being offered up to us as such, should meet this exacting criterion from our former Prime Minister Jean Chretien:

What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven.

Wait a minute... this quote...millions of dollars unaccounted for...Is he a GB/Sith paduan?

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Darwins theory of evolution

by gisburnuk in

hi everyone, i have been attending bible study with one of my jeohavah's witnesses for 4 weeks, and only recently i had attended a sunday meeting with brother michael at our local kindom hall.

i have enjoyed both the time with the bible study (michael teaching quality) and the sunday meeting and have had serious thoughts to altering my life in accordance with jehovah.

but i am rather sceptical about evolution, and whenever i try to read genesis in the bible, darwins theory seems to get in the way.

Midget-Sasquatch

Gisburn,

Read up a little on pseudogenes and homologies in gene sequences. That stuff strongly points to common ancestries between different species.

Simply put: If both of us were to come up with a similar database of information that we intended to sell, and used the same sources, you'd expect it to be nearly identical. However if I sneakily put in some bogus info into mine and you then have the EXACT same bogus info, I have a strong case that you copied off of mine.

Same thing with organisms and their junk dna which has the same errors as other species. How did the one come to have it just like the other?

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Do You Feel That Stereotyping Nationalities Is Necessarily Wrong?

by minimus in

jw
friends

politically correct, it isn't----but do you think there's any validity to "stereotyping" people or backgrounds??

?

Midget-Sasquatch

Its definitely something to be avoided. Sociological studies have shown time and again that people of the same socioeconomic class have more in common in regards to behaviours/outlooks than with people of their own ethnicity/race but different class.

Even if at first it seems that a view/ideology is specifically associated with one ethnicity, that sort of racial profiling can be easily thwarted once the ideology spreads to like minded ones of a different nationality.

If you were a JW, who would you feel safer around, a person from Philipines who also is part of Abu Sayyaf, or an Iranian who was ba'hai?

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SHOW DOWN TODAY

by Corvin in

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today, i am taking the girls to meet with the court appointed attorney.

he will interview the girls and me together, then he will interview sara and the girls together.

it is his recommendation to the judge that will decide the outcome of this custody battle.

Midget-Sasquatch

After reading your last post Corvin, I think I'll only say that I wish you and your kids the best...I'll skip giving any advice.

Seriously though, here's to your having a massive party on the 23rd.

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YHVH (JEHOVAH) a pagan god?

by Informant in

yahweh is a pagan name .

http://www.jesus-messiah.com/studies/yahweh-full-copy.html .

edited to make link clickable ~ scully

Midget-Sasquatch

Interesting links informant.

Perhaps someone more knowledgable than me can remember exacly, but archeologists found an ancient hebrew inscription that mentioned Yahweh and his consort. Who knows exactly how he was thought of as being, before the Hebrews made him their number one and only one.

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This week in God...The Daily Show

by Nancy Drake in

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did anyone catch the jw shout out on the daily show yesterday with steven colbert?

Midget-Sasquatch

I remember Steve saying something along the lines of : its still the best way to meet jamaican women.

I kid you not.

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Most Delusional Moment as a Jehovah's Witness

by Terry in

i remember standing there in the evening light of a setting texas sun in the middle of a federal prison with a chilled wind whipping up dust devils around me.

i was twenty years old and so skinny you didn't need an x-ray to see through me.

seagoville was a prison filled with lost souls, men with dumpsters for hearts and foul mouths that spat the contents of a poisoned mind into your ears.

Midget-Sasquatch

I can't fathom that sort of loss.

Don't torment yourself with what ifs...You were hoping they would give blood. Your heart and mind were in the right place. You weren't delusional neither was your child or any of your family. They like many others were deceived. There was no lapse on your part.

The Deluded Fanatics are those ignorant, power mad, members of the GB who think they are tools of the Divine when they are agents of senseless death. Then they have the gall to glorify these incidents like HAMAS does with their shahids.

Telling the story of your child will surely save many other lives. Few of us could ever say that about our own life course. Whenever this topic comes up in conversation, I will point them to AJWRB.org.